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Respondent: David Hultman (1732–1798)
Title: Instructio Musei Rerum Naturalium, ...
Date of Defense: 14 November 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-19, [1]
Lidén Title: Instructio musei rerum naturalium.
Soulsby Title: Instr. mus.
Drake Title: Instructio Musei Rerum Naturalium.
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Abstract: An account of the 18th-century Swedish natural history collections of Queen Lovisa Ulrika, King Adolph Fredrik, and Count Carl Gyllenborg, at Stockholm; of Kilian Stobaeus, at Lund; of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Samuel Ziervogel, at Stockholm.
Respondent: Nils Gahn (1733–1820)
Title: ... exhibens Plantas Officinales, ...
Date of Defense: 15 December 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-31, [1]
Lidén Title: Plantae officinales.
Soulsby Title: Pl. officin.
Drake Title: Plantae Officinales.
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Abstract: A pharmaceutical essay for Swedish apothecaries, forming the first enumeration of medicinal plants to be equated with Linnaean Latin binomials. It provides three catalogues: (1) Plants of the Materia medica (ca. 580 spp.), with binomials, identifying the parts used medicinally, with directions for preparation and use of selected parts; (2) Native plants of Sweden, which should be used for medicinal needs rather than any imported material of the same species; (3) Plants that should be cultivated in Sweden to preclude any excuse for their importation.
Respondent: Gustaf Jacob Carlbohm (1731–1758)
Title: Censura Medicamentorum simplicium Vegetabilium, ...
Date of Defense: {19} December 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-24
Lidén Title: Censura medicamentorum simplicium vegetabilium.
Soulsby Title: Cens. med.
Drake Title: Censura Medicamentorum Simplicium Vegetabilium.
Note: Three copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: Cautionary notes on medical uses of herbs and other vegetables.
Respondent: Eric Magnus Lindecrantz (1729–1788)
Title: Cynographia, ...
Date of Defense: 21 December 1753
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-23, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Cynographia.
Soulsby Title: Cynogr.
Drake Title: Cynographia.
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Abstract: This account of the domesticated dog is held by historical zoologists to exemplify Linnaeus' first and complete zoological description according to the format prescribed by Linnaeus in his "Methodus demonstrandi" of his Systema naturae.
Respondent: Anders Hedenberg (1737–1798)
Title: ... sistens Stationes Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: 3 April 1754
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-23, [1]
Lidén Title: Stationes plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Stat. pl.
Drake Title: Stationes Plantarum.
Note: Four of five copies corrected in manuscript to read H.P.M.C.
Abstract: An essay on plant habitats, with examples of flowering plants found in each.
Respondent: Isaac Olof Grufberg (1736–1764)
Title: Flora Anglica, ...
Date of Defense: 3 April 1754
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-29, [3]
Lidén Title: Flora anglica.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Angl.
Drake Title: Flora Anglica.
Note: Four of five copies corrected in manuscript to read H.P.M.C.
Abstract: This is the first publication to classify English plants according to Linnaeus' system. It enumerates some 700 species common to England and Scandanavia, plus another 300 not known in Sweden.
Respondent: Olof Stickman (1731–1798)
Title: Herbarium Amboinense, ...
Date of Defense: 11 May 1754
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-28
Lidén Title: Herbarium amboinense.
Soulsby Title: Herb. Amboin.
Drake Title: Herbarium Amboinense.
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Abstract: A commentary on the Herbarium Amboinense (1741-1755) of George Eberhard Rumph (1627-1702), with Linnean equivalent names given for Rumph's polynomials.
Respondent: Lars Hiortzberg (1727–1789)
Title: ... de Methodo investigandi Vires Medicamentorum chemica, ...
Date of Defense: 2 October 1754
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16
Lidén Title: Methodus investigandi vires medicamentorum chemica.
Soulsby Title: Vir. med.
Drake Title: Methodo Investigandi Vires Medicamentorum Chemica.
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Abstract: A pharmacological dissertation on the chemical method of examining pharmaceutical preparations to analyze their odors, flavors and chemical compositions. The work points out that poisonous plants may possess toxic qualities in some parts and not in others and that careful chemical study of all parts of a plant is essential to a reliable knowledge of its pharmaceutical nature.
Respondent: Pehr Zetzell (1724–1802)
Title: Consectaria electrico-medica ...
Date of Defense: 12 October 1754
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-8
Lidén Title: Consectaria electrico-medica.
Soulsby Title: Cons. elec.-med.
Drake Title: Consectaria Electrico-Medica.
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Abstract: A study in the medical value of electrical treatments in curing human disorders.
Respondent: Carl Fredrik Hoffberg (1729–1790)
Title: Cervus Rheno, ...
Date of Defense: 23 October 1754
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-24, 1 plate (plate is on p. [iv])
Lidén Title: Cervus Rheno.
Soulsby Title: Cervus
Drake Title: Cervus Rheno.
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Abstract: History of the reindeer, an animal of vital importance to inhabitants of Lapland and other arctic areas. Includes observations on reindeers’ diet.
